Beck Malenstyn scored simply 2:07 into the sport Monday night time for the visiting Buffalo Sabres, who by no means trailed as they snapped a 13-game shedding streak by routing the New York Islanders 7-1 in Elmont, N.Y.
Jiri Kulich posted his first profession two-goal sport whereas Rasmus Dahlin collected a career-high 4 assists for the Sabres, who set a season excessive for objectives whereas successful for the primary time since Nov. 23 — 5 days earlier than Thanksgiving.
The Sabres, who had been outscored 54-28 throughout their 13-game skid (0-10-3), scored the primary six objectives Monday as they posted their most lopsided win since a 7-0 blanking of the Los Angeles Kings on Feb. 13 final season.
The 4 assists by Dahlin snapped his earlier single-game better of three, set thrice beforehand. Goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 27 saves within the win.
Lightning 4, Panthers 0
Nikita Kucherov netted the game-winner earlier than being ejected and Tampa Bay break up its home-and-home set in opposition to Florida by blanking the Stanley Cup champions in Dawn, Fla.
Lightning backup goaltender Jonas Johansson stopped 36 photographs for his first shutout since October 2023.
Kucherov scored early however was assessed a sport misconduct late within the first interval after a kneeing incident on Matthew Tkachuk, who needed to be helped to the dressing room however later returned.
Canucks 4, Sharks 3
Elias Pettersson scored twice and Quinn Hughes added two assists as Vancouver edged visiting San Jose.
Brock Boeser and Kiefer Sherwood additionally scored for the Canucks, who snapped a three-game skid (0-1-2) and received for the second time in six outings (2-2-2). Thatcher Demko made 26 saves to enhance to 12-0-0 in opposition to the Sharks in his profession.
William Eklund, Cody Ceci and Luke Kunin tallied for San Jose, which has misplaced 5 straight (0-4-1). Rookie Macklin Celebrini, a Vancouver native, picked up two assists within the loss. Yaroslav Askarov stopped 20 photographs whereas opposing the Canucks for the primary time.
Golden Knights 3, Geese 1
Tomas Hertl scored the go-ahead purpose halfway by means of the third interval and likewise had an help as Vegas accomplished a four-game regular-season collection sweep of Anaheim in Las Vegas.
The victory was the 119th for coach Bruce Cassidy with the Golden Knights, passing Gerard Gallant for essentially the most in franchise historical past. Cassidy is 119-59-20 with the membership. Gallant went 118-75-20. Tanner Pearson had a short-handed purpose and Keegan Kolesar added a purpose and an help for Vegas, which received its fourth straight sport and prevailed for the eighth time in 9 video games. Adin Hill made 31 saves for his fiftieth profession win with Pacific Division-leading Vegas, which improved to 14-3-0 at dwelling this season.
Mason McTavish scored a purpose and Lukas Dostal, who entered the sport with 2:28 to go within the first interval after beginning goaltender John Gibson was injured, completed with 19 saves for Anaheim. Gibson stopped all 11 photographs he confronted earlier than Vegas heart Tanner Laczynski, spinning round to race again up ice, inadvertently caught the goalie in the fitting eye together with his stick. Laczynski earned an interference penalty.
Wild 4, Blackhawks 3
Brock Faber scored the go-ahead purpose early within the third interval and Minnesota held on for a win over Chicago in Saint Paul, Minn.
Faber put the Wild on prime 3-2 with 17:17 remaining within the third interval. Kirill Kaprizov, Jared Spurgeon and Marcus Foligno every added one purpose for Minnesota, which snapped a four-game shedding streak. The Wild improved to 13-0-1 of their previous 14 video games in opposition to the Blackhawks.
Connor Bedard, Nick Foligno and Jason Dickinson every scored for Chicago. The Blackhawks misplaced their second straight sport after successful the earlier three in a row.
Stars 3, Utah Hockey Membership 2
Casey DeSmith made 24 saves in his first begin since Dec. 2, serving to Dallas finish a two-game skid with a win in opposition to Utah in Salt Lake Metropolis.
DeSmith’s earlier begin additionally got here at Utah, the place he made 36 saves in a 2-1 win. Jake Oettinger began the following eight video games, with DeSmith making one 18-minute aid look in opposition to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday.
Colin Blackwell, Roope Hintz and Jamie Benn scored for Dallas. Kevin Stenlund and Barrett Hayton scored and Karel Vejmelka made 26 saves for Utah, which had its eight-game level streak (6-0-2) snapped.
Penguins 7, Flyers 3
Sidney Crosby had a purpose and three assists to match the Pittsburgh profession report held by Corridor of Famer Mario Lemieux because the host Penguins beat Philadelphia. Crosby and Lemieux every have 1,033 assists, tied for twelfth in NHL historical past.
Michael Bunting scored twice, Rickard Rakell had a purpose and two assists, Bryan Rust added a purpose and an help and Philip Tomasino and Blake Lizotte additionally scored for Pittsburgh. Evgeni Malkin and Erik Karlsson had two assists apiece, and Tristan Jarry made 24 saves for the victory.
Egor Zamula, Noah Cates and Sean Couturier scored for Philadelphia. Scott Laughton had two assists. Samuel Ersson stopped 9 photographs and surrendered 5 objectives earlier than being changed by Aleksei Kolosov, who made six saves on seven photographs.
Devils 5, Rangers 0
Jack Hughes scored twice and picked up an help as New Jersey scored three power-play objectives and rolled to a victory over sliding New York in Newark, N.J.
Hughes scored twice on goaltender Jonathan Fast three weeks after scoring twice on Igor Shesterkin within the Devils’ 5-1 rout of New York on Dec. 2. Timo Meier additionally scored a power-play purpose whereas Stefan Noesen and Dawson Mercer scored in a span of 4:35 within the third for New Jersey.
Fast allowed 5 objectives on 29 photographs. The Rangers are 4-13-0 of their previous 17 video games.
Bruins 4, Capitals 1
Elias Lindholm and Charlie Coyle scored third-period objectives inside a span of two:18 as Boston surged previous visiting Washington.
Brad Marchand’s two objectives and an help led the Bruins, who will carry their first five-game level streak of the season (4-0-1) into the vacation break. The Boston captain now has factors in 10 consecutive video games for the third time in his profession.
Jakub Vrana scored his third purpose in as many video games for Washington, which took solely its fourth loss in a 14-game span (10-3-1). The Bruins performed about half of the sport with out star winger David Pastrnak, who was harm on a neutral-ice hit within the second interval and was not on the crew’s bench to start out the third.
Blues 4, Purple Wings 0
Dylan Holloway notched his first profession hat trick and St. Louis Blues ended a three-game shedding streak with a win at Detroit.
Jordan Binnington made 19 saves for his second shutout this season and the seventeenth of his profession. Alexandre Texier additionally scored for the Blues, who had scored only one purpose in every of their earlier three video games.
Cam Talbot made 17 saves for the Purple Wings, who’ve misplaced three straight video games.
Jets 5, Maple Leafs 2
Mark Scheifele had three objectives and an help as visiting Winnipeg defeated Toronto.
Kyle Connor added two objectives and two assists, Gabriel Vilardi piled up three assists and Josh Morrissey had two assists for the Jets, who’ve received two video games in a row. Connor Hellebuyck stopped 23 photographs.
John Tavares scored twice for Toronto, notching his 2 hundredth purpose as a Maple Leaf within the course of. Together with his time with the New York Islanders, Tavares has 473 profession objectives and is the fifth participant in NHL historical past with 200 or extra objectives for 2 franchises.
Blue Jackets 5, Canadiens 4
Dmitri Voronkov lit the lamp twice and Kirill Marchenko scored the sport winner with simply over two minutes remaining to assist host Columbus outlast Montreal.
Marchenko completed with a purpose and two assists whereas Sean Monahan and Zach Werenski tallied three assists apiece.
Patrik Laine’s return to Columbus as a member of the Canadiens was minimize brief after he left the sport following the tip of the primary interval with an upper-body harm.
Predators 5, Hurricanes 2
Jonathan Marchessault had two objectives and an help and Nashville received back-to-back video games for the primary time since October by defeating visiting Carolina.
Steven Stamkos, Ryan O’Reilly and Mark Jankowski additionally had objectives for the Predators, who’ve received 4 of their previous six video games. Filip Forsberg offered three assists, and Juuse Saros made 25 saves.
Jordan Staal and Sebastian Aho scored for the Hurricanes, who’ve misplaced two of the previous three. Dustin Tokarski yielded 4 objectives on 24 photographs in his second look for Carolina.
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